I purchased a new MP3-4 Zune 120GB player recently. I have been unable to run the Zune software to link it to my PC. The local "Geeks to the Rescue" shop tried for days and were unsuccessful too. The internal software on the Zune player is fine - it's just the dumb Zune s/w for the PC that won't setup a connection to the player.!!!!????

Is there any simple Generic/3rd party date/file transfer utility that would just dump music files from my PC onto the Zune (or am I locked into the official Zune software"). I'm told my PC (now an antique at 10 years old) is too old and slow to run Zune s/w !!!!!!! I'm holding onto the player untill I get a new all singing/all-dancing PC next year sometime, but in the meantime I'd like to make some use of the player. All I am interested in is to get the music files downloaded into the Zune player - I'm not interested in any of the other fancy stuff the PC Zune software does - I won't for example be downloading music from the Internet.

Have you tried using a live CD linux distrobution to solve your problem? I remember seeing several distros on distro watch dot com that catered to audiofiles. And they should run real well on your older computer. When your done, pull the CD out and your back to your original operating system.
Alan

I purchased a new MP3-4 Zune 120GB player recently. I have been unable to run the Zune software to link it to my PC. The local "Geeks to the Rescue" shop tried for days and were unsuccessful too. The internal software on the Zune player is fine - it's just the dumb Zune s/w for the PC that won't setup a connection to the player.!!!!????